"I needed Rayya at a level that was far beyond healthy, Gilbert writes of wanting to demonstrate her commitment with extreme acts. Confronted by her compulsion to seek meaning through the highs of romantic intensity, Gilbert eventually diagnoses herself as a sex and love addict, exploring the label via self-reflection and 12-step recovery communities like Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)."
"Love and sex addiction can overlap and are often discussed together, but Gilbert focuses less on her sex life than on the extreme ways she pursues love, acceptance, validation and approval, abbreviated in recovery communities as Lava. Some of these recovery communities, such as Love Addicts Anonymous (LAA), engage primarily with love addiction as its own unique form of unhealthy obsession. Love, intimacy and acceptance are universal needs, and western society venerates romance, lionizing extreme behaviors in its pursuit."
Elizabeth Gilbert enabled a dying friend to access hard drugs and alcohol as a warped act of care while married. That enabling arose from a compulsive need for intense emotional highs and validation. Gilbert labels herself a sex and love addict and explores recovery through self-reflection and 12-step groups such as Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA). Recovery communities differentiate between combined sex-and-love addiction and distinct love addiction approaches like Love Addicts Anonymous (LAA). Experts debate whether romantic fixation is best framed as addiction, attachment disorder, behavioral pattern, or relational dysfunction, wary of over-pathologizing normal experiences.
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